BuddyPress Translations

A quick audit of all the codex pages under BuddyPress Languages/Translations reveal that only a handful of pages have links to translations for the latest BP version. The large majority of the language pages contained outdated, incorrect and oftentimes confusing information about where to find and download the translation files for the respective languages.

There are translations hosted at translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress, some at i18n.svn.buddypress.org (deprecated), one at svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n, one at google code, some at personal websites and/or BuddyPress Group websites. We need to consolidate all the translations in one official site so that the end users won’t have any difficulty in finding their respective translation files.

Per our BuddyPress Codex Survey, close to half (44%) of BuddyPress sites are built using languages other than English. There have been questions in the BuddyPress Forums about where to find translations and how to create or submit translations. We need to make it easy for translators to contribute to the BP project. In this respect, a Google spreadsheet re BP translations was created to get a bird’s-eye view about the status of BP translations at this time.

Superpowered Group Extensions should be “Extension de Grupos Reforzados”

There is no such word in Spanish “Renforzados” (used in the existing translation)!

Mercime
10:37 pm on November 19, 2013

Is there a way to submit corrections for already ‘translated’ languages?

Not at this time, but that’s a good idea for consideration.. Added in to-do’s. Thanks.

Rob
11:10 pm on November 19, 2013

No problem. It sounds like someone just c/p the English into babelfish or google translate. Which makes it rather awkward.

Mercime
1:36 am on November 20, 2013

Not sure about that. Could be human error or could be Spanish dialect in another part of the country (?). Please be patient, BP translators are all volunteers.

Stephen Edgar
6:25 am on November 22, 2013

To submit translation updates go to the translation, enter your translation suggestion and click ‘Submit new translation”, this will then be marked ‘Waiting’ and the Spanish translation validator for BuddyPress will either approve or reject the request.

Thank you Stephen! :) Spreadsheet was result of our audit and we have noted that i18n.svn.buddypress.org/ is deprecated (changed header to light background so that can be seen more clearly). As to 1.8x branch in official repo, not sure as well.